“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 29
[Thank you, we have a winner. This contest is now closed. Congratulations to faithful Macenstein reader Trip!]
On the Twenty-Ninth Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) a Turbo.264 from elgato!
Got an iPod, iPhone, PSP, or Apple TV and want to watch video on it? Then you want the Turbo.264.
The Turbo.264 is a USB hardware video encoder which acts as a co-processor for your Mac, enabling you to quickly convert video (up to 15 times faster!) to the processor-intensive H.264 format without using your Mac’s resources. That means you can let the Turbo handle the heavy lifting compression duties, freeing your Mac’s processor to do more important things, like let you surf Macenstein.
Any Application that uses QuickTime to export video can take advantage of the Turb.264’s speed, including: iMovie, Final Cut, Compressor, Toast Titanium, EyeTV, MPEG StreamClip and others, but the Turbo.264 also comes with an easy “drag and drop†application as well. The application converts video that is not copy-protected one at a time or in a batch, and drops the converted file(s) into iTunes®, where they automatically sync with a connected iPod, Apple TV or iPhone. The Turbo.264 application also encodes video to a YouTube®-friendly format and uploads it to your YouTube account.
Turbo.264 supports DVD chapter markers, and enables you to pick from multiple audio tracks. It can also preserve Dolby Digitalâ„¢ audio when encoding to Apple TV format so you can play back video on your Apple TV with your multi-channel audio sound system. Turbo.264 supports the transcoding of entire transport streams, for example from set top boxes, and automatically detects widescreen DVD content to encode it without black bars.
To enter: Since the Turbo is all about speeding up the encoding of your favorite videos, leave us a comment telling us what is the best movie of all time? (Answers other than Army of Darkness will be reluctantly accepted). Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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casa blanca
WallE
Back to the Future
Casino
Heat
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
A Clockwork Orange
The Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lebowski
“Your phone’s ringing, Dude”
Into The Wild
james bond (all of them)
Aha! Doc really does have more prizes than questions!
In that case, I’ll recycle my answer as well:
Buckaroo Banzai! All star cast! Dazzling effects! Scintillating dialog! Just the right mix of suspense, action and humor! Lots of exclamation points!
Star Wars : A New Hope.
true romance
Would you punch me if I said Garden State?
The Mission
The Shawshank Redemption
Alien, the first one
Never Ending Story
Kelly’s Heroes
The Iron Giant
When Harry Met Sally
The Blues Brothers
Dark Knight.
I just bought the TV tuner version since I didn’t win it here. Actually, it’s being delivered today… YaY! So how about we pick me this time? Please?
It’s already been said, but I gotta say THE IRON GIANT is one of my favorites. I can watch that one a million times – may have, already.
The Untouchables
My favorite is The Mummy. I can watch that over and over.
Dune
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Magnolia
A Clockwork Orange or 2001. Pick your poison.
Answer that fits the prize: Speed
Real Answer: Tombstone, of course!
hackers!
long time listener, first time caller.
Fav movie: Fight Club – its just crazy enough to make you want to hit somebody.
Love the site,
cheers
Yojimbo
Rushmore
2001
the simpsons movie
The Bourne Series
Full Metal Jacket……especially the Boot Camp part of the movie.
3:10 to Yuma
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Dead Alive
Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Shawshank Redemption
Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”
Hopscotch
Robin Hood (Flynn, of course)
Deep Throat… Ok, not really… War Games
Godfather II